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Sounds like Obama has become Rodney Dangerfield here. He can't get no respect from Glenn Loury for using the trick of being the Magic Black Man to command votes...Loury doesn't even give Obama credit for winning. Loury is a hard audience to please with this very interesting Point of View that a man's accomplishments should be race free judgements. No more invites to the White House for Loury.

Mcwhorter starts out about race. For over 9/10ths of America the president's race is a non-issue. Obama's race is the only bright spot for his presidency as far as I am concerned. These race zeitgeist people are tiresome.

What a great answer from Loury, and what a classic reaction from McWhorter, when he heard such a solid, irrefutable answer to his question. McWhorter didn't know what to do next.

Obama's been a big disappointment to just about everyone, but for any African American who's not a socialist, this must be more than disappointment. Now, Harry Belafonte, he's not disappointed at all. But anyone to the right of Castro has to see this presidency as the worst-case scenario for the first black president.

Imagine that the first black major league baseball player hadn't been hall-of-famer Jackie Robinson, but instead some barely promotable triple-A player prone to errors who hit 0.200 his first year. What would that have done to the notion of racial desegregation in baseball?

Is there something wrong with not liking a man in power who you see as destructive and dishonest?

I know there are lot on the left who dislike many Republicans. I don't find that wrong of them, if they believe what they do. The problem is what they believe, not that they have the natural reaction from it.

Nobody is as judgmental as those who find judgment itself to be wrong. Even dogs don't like everybody.

Well, Bill Richardson is not "from" New Mexico, and Barack Obama is not "from" Chicago, and as many do not think Obama is sufficiently "Black," there is the same feeling about Richardson, that he is not sufficiently "Hispanic," so they have that in common.

Otherwise, I do not see much similarity. The best comment I have heard about Richardson is from a lady that looked over at him as he entered the room and said, "That man leaves greasy footprints!"

Now, Obama having spent two decades in Chicago politics is not unacquainted with stuff that sticks to his shoes, but with him, I think ideology is the goal and political chicanery just the means.

As I said on a number of occasions to my wife and just about anybody that would listen, I'd rather have someone I didn't like but who was competent than someone who wanted me to like them and told me everything I wanted to hear.

Obama promised the world to everyone and then barely delivered (outside of Sully) anything to anyone.